Re: [v6ops] State of play

Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> Tue, 02 February 2016 08:46 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] State of play
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In message <FD36029E-14CD-40EC-9A59-68CDFE7DB56F@employees.org>, otroan@employees.org writes:
> 
> Mark,
> 
> >> When you say "v6man", I assume you mean "6man".
> > 
> > yep.
> > 
> >> I'm a little lost. I don't see the words "chair" or "question" in the =
> >> draft. Could you be more specific about what your question is?
> > 
> > Which WG should take ownership of the problem space in this draft?
> 
> is this an implementation bug, specification bug or both?

Possibly both as implementers failed to apply the simple logic of
if the mtu is limited then the tcp segment size also limited.  If
limit is applied prior to the MSS negotiation then that too is also
limited.

It's all a matter of how much hand holding should there be which
is a judgement call.

Mark

> Best regards,
> Ole
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